Anticipation Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself…

— Paulo Coelho

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the…

— Rajneesh

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London

It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to…

— Rick Yancey

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the…

— Eleanor Catton

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion…

— Edmund Burke

He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most…

— Anonymous

“Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was…

— Winston Graham

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

“He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron…

— H.G. Wells